- The Sung's military was not very powerful
- they frequently signed treaties to stop fighting
- they fell apart due to differences in oppinion between civil bureaucrats
- because of how weak they were they made an alliance with the chin dynast
- they went bankrupt
- The Sungs did not rule over all of china the north was ruled by the empires Liao
- Lost the Northern part of China to a new empire due to the low miltary strength
- Sung severely limited the provincial military and subordinated the army to the civil government